Sex

If you are like me, you have tended to undervalue one of the natural resources available to us: pleasure. And if you are like most, you have relegated your sex to only a small morsel of what is possible—an often rote program of genital stimulation and discharge that may momentarily soothe and satisfy, but rarely offers lasting nourishment and certainly does not tap into your deeper creative potential.

You may have forgotten—or worse, never known—that when you bring more breath to your sex, you can experience more pleasure. And when you allow sound, even more.

Through breath, sound and imagination, genital pleasure can be drawn upward into the heart. What a gift this becomes—for ourself, for our partner, and perhaps even for the planet—as we use our sexual energy to open our hearts and become more heart-centered.

Consider the idea that 90 percent of orgasmic pleasure arises from breath, and only 10 percent from touch. If we limit ourselves by holding our breath, and rely solely on vibrators or physical stimulation to reach orgasm, we may be missing a powerful dimension of accessing our sexual energy.

When we fan these small embers of pleasure with breath, sound, awareness, and imagination, we access a deeper well of energy within us. When practiced and developed, this energy can grow powerful and luminous enough to open our inner channels and usher us into expanded states of awareness.

In this way, orgasm itself becomes more than a fleeting release. It reminds us of who we actually are.

In a full-breath, full-body orgasm, we momentarily experience ourselves as interconnected with everything. We remember both where we come from and where we are going—and who we truly are beyond ideas of ourself.

Imagine how this moment on planet Earth might be different if more of us understood how to open our hearts in our sexuality. Imagine allowing heartbreak and all that feels imbalanced within us to be gently metabolized through presencing ourselves with breath and pleasure in our sex.

And imagine when we combine pleasure with the unstoppable force that catapults us into the future, leap-frogging into forever, the primal drive that procreates species, this urge that knows how to birth ourselves as Gods and Goddesses and create life itself—when we connect this raw sexual power to awareness, breath, and intention, we find our portal into presence and the opening of worlds. Where the deeply natural opens us to the supernatural, and we experience our true nature and true size.

Try bringing more breath, sound, and imagination into your sex today. See how you can bring your sexual energy into your heart and also the places in your body that need balance and restoration. Enjoy some of your natural abilities for sexual healing, health, and empowerment.